Definition of Chewink

1. Noun. Common towhee of eastern North America.

Exact synonyms: Cheewink, Pipilo Erythrophthalmus
Generic synonyms: Towhee
Group relationships: Genus Pipilo, Pipilo

Definition of Chewink

1. n. An american bird (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) of the Finch family, so called from its note; -- called also towhee bunting and ground robin.

Definition of Chewink

1. Noun. A bird, ''Pipilo erythrophthalmus'', the Eastern towhee. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chewink

1. a common finch [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chewink

chewiest
chewiness
chewinesses
chewing
chewing cycle
chewing force
chewing gum
chewing gums
chewing out
chewing over
chewing the fat
chewing tobacco
chewing tobaccos
chewingly
chewings
chewink (current term)
chewinks
chewit
chewre
chewres
chews
chews over
chews the fat
chewstick
chewsticks
chewy
cheyne-stokes respiration
chez
chi
chi-ike

Literary usage of Chewink

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"On December 29, 1903, at Ashland, Middlesex, Co., Massachusetts, I had the good fortune to run across a male chewink (Pipilo ..."

2. The Second Book of Birds: Bird Families by Harriet (Mann) Miller, Olive Thorne Miller (1901)
"The chewink has at the best an exquisite song, though there is a great ... A bird-lover whom I know found one day a nestling chewink who could not fly much, ..."

3. Dictionary of Americanisms. by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"See chewink. Grass-Widow. A wife who has been separated from her husband; called also a "widow bewitched." In England, the term grass- widow signifies an ..."

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